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    "id": 935080,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/935080/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir East, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rashid Kassim",
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        "legal_name": "Rashid Kassim Amin",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. At the outset, I would like to thank Hon. Kamket for bringing this Bill so that we can articulate issues of development in ASAL districts of northern Kenya and intended purposes of this Bill. The Equalisation Fund was meant to correct the anomalies and disparities that existed in terms of development in the past Governments. It also intended to bridge the gap that existed in terms of development disparities between the highly developed parts of this country and those less developed. It was, therefore, meant in real essence to bring this country at par so that those disparities are corrected once and for all. It also came at a time when devolution was postulated in the 2010 Constitution. For that matter, devolution as well as the Equalisation Fund were essentially meant to bring development closer to the people so that they can achieve their basic rights and development services. I would like to, again, thank Hon. Kamket for bringing this Bill which will anchor the Equalisation Fund so that it can be properly and systematically implemented. If you look at the genesis of the Fund and the years it has been in place, you will realise that it was anchored in the National Treasury. The National Treasury is not an implementing ministry. However, it was going to implement projects in the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Roads and various other ministries. The chain was so bureaucratic that those projects that have been postulated or identified have not seen the light of the day. They did not meet the merit of a project."
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